POLICE SAY ENCINITAS YMCA WORKER TEXTED THREATS ABOUT KILLING PEOPLE

An Encinitas YMCA worker who allegedly texted threats about killing people was taken into custody for psychiatric evaluation Thursday, sheriff’s officials said.

The threats were general and not aimed at anyone at the Magdalena Ecke Family YMCA or anywhere else, sheriff’s Lt. Ken Nelson said Friday.

Nelson said the 22-year-old sent text messages to a friend saying he felt like killing people. The friend contacted the man’s employer, the YMCA on Saxony Road, and staff notified the Sheriff’s Department about 11:30 a.m. Thursday.

Deputies found the man, who surrendered peacefully. He said the man had no weapons, and he was taken to a psychiatric hospital.

“We take every one of these types of cases seriously, especially after Aurora,” Nelson said.

James Holmes is accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater July 20. In Columbine, Colo., two high school students fatally shot 13 and wounded 21 people April 20, 1999, before committing suicide.

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5 injured at border fence while trying to cross into U.S. illegally

Otay Mesa

Five suspected illegal immigrants were hospitalized Friday morning after suffering injuries while trying to enter the United States.

Officials were called to a cargo lot at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry about 1 a.m. where they found eight men who had just climbed over the secondary fence, Border Patrol Agent Jerry Conlin said.

Some of them fell from the 12-foot-high fence topped with barbed wire and suffered various injuries, including head trauma and fractures, Conlin said.

The group was attempting to flee when agents apprehended them.

Three men remain in the hospital and may need surgery, Conlin said. Two were treated and released to authorities.

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Police seek two men who stormed Bay Park house, robbed residents

San Diego

San Diego police are looking for two men who stormed into a Bay Park house Friday morning armed with guns and robbed the residents.

The robbers forced their way into the house on Tonopah Avenue east of Morena Boulevard around 10 a.m., after one of them asked for directions at the door, police Lt. Andra Brown said.

Five college students live at the house, but only three were there at the time, Brown said. The robbers covered them with blankets while ransacking the house.

Two laptops and two cellphones were reported missing, Brown said.

The robbers were described as black and in their 20s. One is 6 feet tall and was wearing a red basketball jersey and shorts. The other is about 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs about 220 pounds. He wore a black basketball jersey and shorts.

Oliver Ortega • U-T

Passenger killed in I-805 crash in which car lands upside down

East Village

Authorities investigated a crash on Interstate 805 in Chula Vista that left one man dead Friday.

The crash involving two vehicles occurred near Main Street about 5:10 p.m., the California Highway Patrol reported.

Adrian Ramirez, 19, was driving a 1993 Acura Integra south on the freeway at about 80 mph and weaving in and out of traffic, authorities said.